Embalming process for deodorization



UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMBALMING PROCESS FOR DEODORIZATION.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TnoRNroN B. BARNES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Qmbalming Process for Deodorization, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to emoalming processes and has particular reference to the deodorization of the body.

Among the objects of the invention there fore is to provide a method the practice of which will result primarily in the destruction or neutralization of unsanitary or offensive odors, and the process includes such treatment of the body as will render or tend to render it stable or in such state of preservation as to not give off odors subsequently.

Another object of the invention is to establish a cooperative relation or coaction between a deodorizing agent and a preservative, whereby not only will these agents act to perform the functions ordinarily attributed to them simultaneously, but by their conjoint action I am able to secure a more complete and eiiicient deodorizing result than has been possible heretofore in the use only of a deodorizing agent.

In the development and practice of this method of embalming I inject or otherwise bring; into contact with the body any suitable deodorizing agent or chemical such as chlorin gas or any suitable compound of chlorin, such as a gas or a liquid capable of liberating its chlorin as a This chlorin or chlorin compound may be introduced into or applied to the body, preferably into the vascular system, by any suitable means or in any convenient form eith r as a gas or in solution. When injected into the body one of the first results to be accomplished is the dilation-of the vessels of the vascular system, followed by the saturation of the tissues, bringing the deodorant into intimate contact with any of the objectionable odors in such tissues, and so to prepare such tissues for the more thorough introduction, circulation or discharge of any other fluids either gaseous or liquid that may be desired to be introduced for antiseptic, germicidal, or disinfectant purposes, or for the discharge from the body of any of the fluids so introduced or any organic solutions from Specification of Letters iatent.

Application filed. September 23, 1919.

Patented Dec. 13, 1921.

Serial No. 325,751.

'the body itself that may result from the introduction or injection of the fluids as aforesaid.

Ordinarily in the embalming of the body in addition to the introduction of the deodorizing agent there is desired to be employed a suitable bleaching agent either in gaseous or liquid form and usually including either carbon monoxid in any form, illuminating gas, or its equivalent. This introduction of the bleaching agent may be contemporaneous with the introduction of the deodorizer or at any other preferred time, depending upon the condition of the body and the individual practice of the embalmer.

l Vhether or not a bleaching agent is employed it is of peculiar importance that some distinctly efficient antiseptic or disinfectant medium, particularly the latter, be employed, and the best results are obtained in either employing the disinfectant simultaneously with the use of the deodorizing agent or immediately thereafter after the tissues or walls have been dilated and the tissues saturated. This introduction of the disinfectant at about the time stated is important, however, not so much because of the dilation of the tissues or walls as for the chemical combinative effect or cotiperation between the deodorizing agent and the disinfectant.

Any suitable species of disinfectant or preservative agent or form thereof may be employed. For this purpose I suggest the use of formaldehyde either in solution or as a If the deodorizing agent and the preservative are both used in gaseous form the injection or application of both of them at the same time mixed together or otherwise combined may readily be accomplished, but preferably the chlorin should be introduced first, as stated above. In my extensive experience as an embalmer I have discovered that the deodorizing properties of chlorin or the like are materially augmented when used in connection with or substantially in connection with a disinfectant such as formaldehyde in any form. In other words while chlorin has'long been well recognized as a deodorizer, and formaldehyde is commonly employed as a disinfectant, I believe it to be new with me to discover the efiiciency of the conjoint. use of chlorin and forma1dehyde, or their equivalents, simultaneously as a deodorizing process. There seems to he formed in such conjoint use a new chemical compound including chlorin and formaldehyde, the exact formula or reaction for which I am not at this time able to state, but such a new compound distinctly possesses the peculiar property of constituting a better deodorizing agent than any deodorizing agent heretofore known or used so far as I am aware.

When chlorin gas is injected into the body it first attacks the offensive odors such as sulfureted hydrogen decomposing the same with a probable reaction as follows:

stance. By neutralizing the ammonia the liquid injection of formaldehyde following,

for the purpose of preservation, will not be present, and then injecting into the body a preserving liquid containing formaldehyde, this order of application being for the purpose of enhancing the effect of the preserving liquid.

2. The process of embalming which comprises the injection into the body of chlorin and formaldehyde gas to neutralize the offensive odors of sulfur and ammonia pres-- ent therein, and then the injection into the body of a preserving liquid containing formaldehyde, whereby the previous destruction of the offensive odors enhances and permits the efiicient action of the preserving liquid. 7

THORNTON B. BARNES. 

